Quotes About Time

As science turns toward the realm of the Spirit to understand the physical universe, Space, Matter, Time are more prone to induce reverence than arrogance among scientists, who are sounding more like Isaiah in the temple than Isaac Newton under the apple tree.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.

In time and with water, everything changes

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come

Hari yang dilewatkan dengan baik, akan menghasilkan tidur yang nyenyak.

How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.

It was the opinion of Leonardo that the temporary nature of music caused its inferiority to painting. Although durability was in itself no absolute test,—else the work of coppersmiths would be the highest art,—yet in any final scale, permanence could not altogether be disregarded. Music perished in the very act of its creation, while painting preserved the beautiful from the hand of time.

As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.

O Time, consumer of all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Men do wrong to lament the flight of time, complaining that it passes too quickly and failing to perceive that its period is sufficiently long; but a good memory, with which nature has endowed us, causes everything that is long past to appear to us to be present.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity

Perché la minestra si fredda.

The instant does not have time; and time is made from the movement of the instant.

ViaÈ›a nostr? de adulÈ›i reprezint? un amalgam al experienÈ›elor trecute È™i prezente, trecutul având o influen?? din ce în ce mai redus? odat? cu trecerea timpului. AflaÈ›i într-o astfel de stare, în cea mai mare parte a timpului suntem capabili s? percepem realitatea curent? în mod obiectiv È™i imediat.

It is with the common book that most readers will spend their head-tilted hours. from The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

I could tell you my adventures – but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.